hey i was torrenting elite keystroke logger which was in the cool stuff section of HTS. i opted for log viewing only during the installation which then opened up my browser and started DLing logs_viewer.zip which chrome told me is malicious. dafuq? has this happened to anyone else?

therenegadeoffunk69, a lot of things that 'hackers' use will be screened as malicious by scanning software. A prime example would be cain and abel. Now that said, I don't know anything about that software that you're trying to download, so I would always assume the worst.OP, like I said above, I would always assume the worst. Downloading and using a third party keylogger creates a HUGE risk of you becoming infected. So rather than doing that, I'm going to tell you to make one. It'd be a lot more beneficial. And don't tell us to not to you to do something. Because obviously we're the more skilled people on the subject. Creating a keylogger is not that hard. You could very easily look up the code for a simple keylogger and compile and run it yourself. That way, you'll at least be able to see what you're running. And you can still be lazy and not actually put any kind of intellectual input into coding your own program.

therenegadeoffunk69, I honestly can't tell you yes or no. But it does look pretty decent IMO.Here's what I would do in this situation, I'd get a VM in virtualbox (not sure how familiar you are with VM's), and then I'd setup an OS specifically for running things that may be hazardous. You could download things you think are malicious and run them. Then you could run an intense virus scanner to see if anything comes up. If nothing comes up beside the things that you know are gonna raise red flags, then you can feel more safe running it on of your main boxes. But even then, you can never be too sure.Downie, go find some other site that will help you. Because we won't.

The above is the official site for the product, and you can read up on all the details about sandboxie from it.

Having a VM however, is just fun as hell, and will help gear you towards becoming a better hacker. I say this because it makes you very versatile, and you can dive into Linux operating systems such as backtrack. Keep in mind also that Linux is far less compatible with software unlike Windows.